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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Four children aboard the Titanic--Sophie, Paddy, Juliana, and Alfie--believe the famed killer Jack the Ripper is on the ship with them, and the urgency of their mystery deepens as the "unsinkable" ship hits an iceberg.
2) Elusive love
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Elusive LoveSusannah Parker, an Indiana beauty whose marriage to wealthy Greg Walton has taken her into a world of money, privilege, and betrayal, and Wall Street mogul Michael West search for true love amid the glamour of high society, Hollywood glitter, and the rarified world of New York's financial powerbrokers. By Catherine Lanigan. New York Times best selling Author and Author of Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile.
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For all the technology, conveniences, and advantages we experience in today's world, many of us struggle just to get through each day. After coming through what seemed like a lifetime of abuse, hardship, and oppression, Joyce Meyer has come to live every day in victory and joy. In her new book, she spreads the word that an exciting, enjoyable life is available to everyone! The breakthrough for Joyce came when she started to look at herself through...
4) Du iz tak?
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The creator of Home turns a droll eye to the natural world with a playful invented language.
Du iz tak? What is that? As a tiny shoot unfurls, two damselflies peer at it in wonder. When the plant grows taller and sprouts leaves, some young beetles arrive to gander, and soon-with the help of a pill bug named Icky-they wrangle a ladder and build a tree fort. But this is the wild world, after all, and something horrible is waiting to swoop down-booby...
5) Stone soup
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From the book by Marcia Brown Aladdin volume c1947
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Marcia Brown has made of this old tale a carnival of activity, dancing, and laughter
Three soldiers came marching down the road towards a French village. The peasants, seeing them coming, suddenly became very busy, for soldiers are often hungry. So all the food was hidden under mattresses or in barns. There followed a battle of wits, with the soldiers equal to the occasion. Stone soup? Why, of course, they could make a wonderful soup of stones...but,...
7) Unsinkable
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Titanic volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"The Titanic is meant to be unsinkable, but as it begins its maiden voyage, there's plenty of danger waiting for four of its young passengers. Paddy is a stowaway, escaping a deadly past. Sophie's mother is delivered to the ship by police - after she and Sophie have been arrested. Juliana's father is an eccentric whose riches can barely hide his madness. And Alfie is hiding a secret that could get him kicked off the ship immediately. The lives of...
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Couples, both married and unmarried, collide at a country house during a weekend of sex, adventure, and shocking surprises In 1944, with Britain still embroiled in World War II, Henry Tillotson marries a mysterious woman in desperate need of a passport. On their wedding night, she gives her new husband a black eye and falls ill. Is Margaret mad? Or is something else driving her-something from her shadowy past? The arrival of two more couples at the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie's kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might, Gie Gie cannot bring the water closer; she cannot make it run clearer. Every morning, she rises before the sun to make the long journey to the well. Instead of a crown, she wears a heavy pot on her head to collect the water. After the voyage home, after boiling the water to drink and...
11) Pet show!
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Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize.
12) Forever friends
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Drag and Rex volume 1
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Best friends Drag and Rex could not be more different, but together they find joy and adventure in the simplest places.
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This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of his most fantastic tales, such as:
The Doom That Came to Sarnath-Hate, genocide, and a deadly curse consume the land of Mnar.
The Statement of Randolph Carter-"You fool, Warren is dead!"
The Nameless City-Death lies beneath the shifting sands, in a story linking the Dream Cycle with the legendary...
14) Poésies
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"Poésies complètes" est une collection des poèmes les plus célèbres d'Arthur Rimbaud, l'un des plus grands poètes français du XIXe siècle. Rimbaud a commencé à écrire de la poésie à l'âge de quinze ans, et a produit une œuvre poétique remarquablement dense et riche avant de se retirer de la vie publique à l'âge de vingt ans. Les poèmes de Rimbaud sont célèbres pour leur langage imagé et leur musicalité. Rimbaud a utilisé des...
15) Easy meat
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Charlie Resnick mysteries volume 8
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English
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A teenage thug goes to prison when a simple robbery turns bloody Nicky Snape likes robbing old people. The fifteen-year-old snatches shirts from stores, purses from his teachers, and as much money as he can lift from his mother. But for an easy score he knows no better target than the elderly. When he sneaks into the home of Eric and Doris Netherfield, his footsteps wake the old couple. With a piece of steel railing he keeps by the bed for protection,...
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"In Don't Wait Till Your Dead Matt distills the lessons, stories, and heavenly truths he's learned from his gift of connecting with souls on the other side. Readers will be able to learn lifetimes of secrets to happiness, fulfillment, and gratitude from loved ones that are no longer with us"--
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This sweeping historical survey traces Africa's rich legacy from prehistory to the present, exploring ancient civilizations, medieval empires and colonialism's impact, while highlighting African voices and perspectives to offer a long-overdue account of the continent's global significance.
20) Old school
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unteachables comes a hilarious story about a boy who is homeschooled in his grandmother's retirement community...until he is forced to go to public school.
Dexter Foreman is twelve going on eighty. He has lived at The Pines retirement village with his grandmother since he was six years old, and as a result he gets along better with senior citizens than kids his own age. He's
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